{"id":933,"date":"2025-10-02T19:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=933"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:12:25","slug":"tsa-asks-for-airline-passengers-patience-warns-longer-wait-times-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/02\/tsa-asks-for-airline-passengers-patience-warns-longer-wait-times-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA asks for airline passengers&#039; patience, warns longer wait times possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) asked travelers for patience and warned the public about possible longer wait times at airports in light of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5534148-senate-shutdown-expected-extend\/\">federal government being shut down<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile TSA is prepared to continue screening about 2.5M passengers a day, an extended shutdown could mean longer wait times at airports. We kindly ask for our passengers\u2019 patience during this time,\u201d a TSA spokesperson said Thursday in a statement to The Hill\u2019s sister network, NewsNation. \u201cDespite this challenge, we will remain vigilant and focused on performing our vital security mission on behalf of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TSA said about 61,000 of the 64,000 workers are considered excepted or exempt and that the agency will \u201ccontinue operations to keep the travelling public safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the employees will be temporarily furloughed, according to the TSA spokesperson.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the TSA workers will not be paid until the end of the shutdown battle, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news-by-subject\/transportation-infrastructure\/5534851-government-shutdown-travel-impact\/\">although those deemed<\/a> working in \u201cessential\u201d roles have to work and will get back pay once the government is funded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>TSA blamed the \u201cpartisan politics\u201d of Democrats in Congress for the latest shutdown, the first one in the last six years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeginning midnight October 1st, funding for much of the Federal Government will have expired due to the partisan politics of left-wing politicians,\u201d the TSA spokesperson said. \u201cWhile it is unfortunate some of our politicians have put politics before the well-being of our country, TSA is prepared for an orderly shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) asked travelers for patience and warned the public about possible longer wait times ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}